†Plesiotoma alissae Batelka et al. 2018 (wedge shaped beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Ripiphoridae
Full reference: J. Batelka, M. S. Engel, and J. Prokop. 2018. A remarkable diversity of parasitoid beetles (Ripiphoridae) in Cretaceous amber, with a summary of the Mesozoic record of Tenebrionoidea. Cretaceous Research 90:296-310
Belongs to Plesiotoma according to J. Batelka et al. 2018
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MfN MB.I 7293, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (MfN collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (MfN collection)
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